sockets created for lmtp

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 19/01/2022 01:07 Mike <alaskabarsalou at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> Quoting Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com>:
> 
> >> On 17/01/2022 20:56 Mike <alaskabarsalou at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Was recently configuring lmtp to listen in the postfix spool for mail.
> >>
> >> I set the socket as suggested in the documentation, however, when I
> >> look at what sockets were created there was an additional one for
> >> dovecot.
> >>
> >> Since I made the change, my expectation would have been just the one
> >> that I set up.
> >>
> >> I doubt it impacts it negatively, but I wanted to understand if I
> >> configured things correctly or not.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >
> > Can you provide any details on what you did, what you expected, and  
> > what you actually observed?
> >
> > Aki
> 
> Sure.  I used the documentation to setup lmtp from here:
> 
> https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/howto/postfix_dovecot_lmtp/
> 
> When issuing this command:
> 
> ss -lxn | grep lmtp
> 
> And I get:
> 
> u_str LISTEN  0       100                                    
> private/lmtp 64917     * 0
> u_str LISTEN  0       100         
> /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp 63578     * 0
> u_str LISTEN  0       100                           
> /var/run/dovecot/lmtp 63575     * 0
> 
> When I expect:
> 
> u_str LISTEN  0       100                                    
> private/lmtp 64917     * 0
> u_str LISTEN  0       100         
> /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp 63578     * 0
> 
> The first entry I believe belongs to postfix.
> The second one is the one I set as above.
> The third seems to be an extra.
> 
> I have an Ubuntu setup if that matters.
> 
> Again, I don't think it is an issue.  Everything seems to work, just  
> thought it makes sense to understand what is going on.
> 
> Mike

Check `doveconf service/lmtp`

Aki